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My son in law is coming down over the weekend with his new fishing rod and we plan to take my 27’ yacht out- berthed in Oare Creek - to try a bit of fishing. Neither of us have fished before. I was thinking we’d get out in the Swale beyond Sheppey, heave-to, throw the lines out and see what happens.
Does anyone have any advice eg bait, locations, tactics …. Anything useful for a couple of total novices.
 
Use small tackle, not the jaws sized hooks and 100lb line on a multiplier I was sold…that’s massively OTT for knocking out a few small sea bass.

I’ve had nothing with a lure despite many hours of trying in all sorts of light and tide conditions with various types.

For success I’d try a basic ledger rig (you can buy these in the fishing tackle shop pre made…’2 hook flapper’ rings a bell) with live rag or lug worm. I’ve not had anything on frozen dead baits, squid etc.

I reckon you’d have as much luck by Faversham Spit as you would anywhere in the Swale.

Good luck!
 
Call into your local fishing tackle shop and buy some rag worm, they come live wrapped in newspaper. Buy about £20 worth for two people. Best bait there is. Fish can't get enough. Also squid rings available from most supermarkets. Good luck.
 
When you catch the first one, put it in a big bucket.
When you catch the second, kill and gut the both of them and put them under the grill straight away.
You will never taste better or fresher fish.
 
Tomahawk said:
When you catch the first one, put it in a big bucket.
When you catch the second, kill and gut the both of them and put them under the grill straight away.
You will never taste better or fresher fish.
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Are you sure?
It was 3 months before I got my second & the first was only 6 inches long :cry: :cry: :ROFLMAO:
 
Tomahawk said:
When you catch the first one, put it in a big bucket.
When you catch the second, kill and gut the both of them and put them under the grill straight away.
You will never taste better or fresher fish.
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Very bad advice. My friend and I went out from Fecamp in an Avon after too good a lunch and fished for mackerel. We got back with half a bucket load of the suicidal creatures. Have you ever tried to fry a semicircular fish?
 
Tomahawk said:
When you catch the first one, put it in a big bucket.
When you catch the second, kill and gut the both of them and put them under the grill straight away.
You will never taste better or fresher fish.
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You can just put them back alive after taking a quick ‘fish selfie’ if you’re not hungry!
 
Little Tern said:
Not in the Medway/Swale/Thames Estuary.
Muddy east coast waters - not so good for visible lures/spinners/feathers etc
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Through the summer months you will catch loads of school bass on feathers and lures, but there is a minimum size limit of 42 cm which the fish caught on feathers don’t usually make. Also two Bass limit per person per day.
 

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Habebty said:
Take some hand grenades and a net on a stick.
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I was watching a YouTube video yesterday about a hopeless wartime Italian dive bomber design. It couldn’t land with its bomb load or the fuselage would wreck itself, so on the way home from an unsuccessful sortie one squadron decided to drop its bombs near the shore to help the local fishermen. Their reward for this generosity was to be shot at by the nearest coastal battery.
 
Jon4468 said:
Through the summer months you will catch loads of school bass on feathers and lures, but there is a minimum size limit of 42 cm which the fish caught on feathers don’t usually make. Also two Bass limit per person per day.
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That’s encouraging, where was that photo taken?
 
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